A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.